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Comment by malvosenior | Hacker News Reader

As someone who comes from a minority group, I absolutely want to be judged on the technical merit of my contributions and not my skin color, gender or genetic background.

Implying that people who aren't white males can't succeed in a meritocratic environment is racist and condescending. I don't see how this helps diversity one bit.

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I have thought about this and I too find it patronising and racist indeed. I don't care about your race, I only care if you are the best.

It's actually a pretty popular opinion among high performing minorities (at least the ones I know -- yes anecdotal). Sadly it's a position entirely absent and forbidden in the debate around this.

While I'm not one for identity politics, I have to say there's just something weird about watching wealthy and powerful white (usually) people debate this issue and completely ignore the voice of those they are supposed to be "sticking up" for.

For me the end goal looks like an attempt to remove the tool I and others used to make social and economic advancement (legitimate skill and hard work) and replace it with some sort of cherry picking of individuals from above. It's definitely something I'm not comfortable with.

I think it has been proven that oppressed people cannot judge their oppression

I think you're missing your /s tag. If that's not sarcasm, I kindly ask you not to call me oppressed.

This pretty much makes my point for me as well that an attempt to "help" me is nothing more than pure condescension and racism.

It s sarcasm. I think we need new vocabularies, the terms have been commoditized to death

Thank you for clarifying.

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